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Carregando... Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana (2002)de Ann Louise Bardach
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From America's number one Cuba reporter, PEN award-winning investigative journalist Ann Louise Bardach, comes the big book on Cuba we've all been waiting for. An incisive and spirited portrait of the twentieth century's wiliest political survivor and his fiefdom, Cuba Confidential is the gripping story of the shattered families and warring personalities that lie at the heart of the forty-three-year standoff between Miami and Havana. Famous to many Americans for her cover stories and media appearances, Ann Louise Bardach has been covering Cuba for a decade. She's talked to the crooks, spooks and politicians who have made history, and to their hired assassins and confidants. Based on exclusive interviews with Fidel Castro, his sister Juanita, his former brother-in-law Rafael Díaz-Balart, the family of Elián González, the friends and family of the legendary American fugitive Robert Vesco, the intrepid terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, and the inner circles of Jeb Bush and the late exile leader Jorge Mas Canosa, Cuba Confidential exposes the hardball take-no-prisoners tactics of the Cuban exile leadership, and its manipulation and exploitation by ten American presidents. Bardach homes in on Fidel Castro and his cronies, taking us closer than we've ever been--and on the militant exiles who have devoted their lives, with CIA connivance, to trying to eliminate him. From Calle Ocho to Juan Miguel González's kitchen table in Cárdenas, from Guantánamo Bay to Union City to Washington, D.C., Ann Louise Bardach serves up an unforgettable portrait of Cuba and its exiles. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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I think the author did a wonderful job of showing how Castro always operated from a love of his country and a desire to end America's exploitation of his land and people, while at the same time not sugar-coating the fact that he has done terrible things to lots of people in order to reach his goals. She points out how his actions over the past 50 years have catapulted a tiny and little-known country into one of the world's major players. She makes clear that the American government's policies and actions have played right into Castro's rhetoric of a David and Goliath relationship.
The parts about Castro and Cuba were wonderful, but the parts about the Miami exile community were jaw-dropping. The author provides ample evidence that shows the exile leadership has created its own little fiefdom in the city of Miami, where Cubans and non-Cubans alike must conform to the exile leadership's opinions and follow its orders, lest they be blacklisted or even killed. In the case of Elian Gonzalez, the author shows how the Miami exile community would gladly sacrifice the life of a six-year-old child in order to score points against Fidel Castro. Truly, they are disgusting. ( )